Pinwheel Galaxy. Its swirling spiral arms display a high rate of star formation and host six detected supernovae. This image was captured with the Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy ...

For this first step, they did not attempt to fully recreate an entire complex galaxy. Instead, they built a simple toy model containing only two components: a large fraction of fuzzy dark matter ...

Timothy Ferris in Seeing in the Dark A ... From this simple observation, soon repeated for other starry nebulae, it became clear that the Milky Way was only one star system (or galaxy) among ...

Here, they appear to block the collective glow of the stars that make up the galaxy itself. They also contain dark clouds, which are star-forming regions. At the center of the image is a bulge of ...

Scientists highlighted "interesting regions" labelled A to E in the "largest photomosaic ever" made by Hubble Space Telescope, as shown in the photo ... galaxy that once collided with Andromeda E ...